It was a treat watching Tom Kiesling repeatedly speck out the MkII from hand launches today at Poway.

On one particular flight I happened to be standing immediately below his glider while he circled patiently at ten to twelve feet high before finally getting away and specking out. The glider was almost low enough to jump up and grab as it went by on each circle. Cool.

ok maybe not great but here are some shots from todays fun fly \ contest -

I flew the X 2 for some of the active rounds and the 4.0 for some of the others.

The X 2 launches really nice! and the speed range is way different - also the speed retention is vastly improved.

I did nto have my landing mode dialed in but still put the nose on the fai 100 mark 3 times in 8 rounds with the rest of the rounds being 99 - 98 and 97 points from what I remember. I got skunked in really bad air today and I was not the only one - several guys simply could nto find anything to get them 10 minutes.

We had everything out there at one point this weekend - Carbon Supras - PIke Perfection - Maxa 3.5 - X2 - Agida - everythign but the prestige !

from the photo it looks like the tips are set at an agressive - AOA? Is this the case?

I think a lot of that is the angle of the photo but the joiners of the new bird do have a larger angle as well- before answering I pulled my early run 35. st joiner and compared it to this one on my bench. The new one is about 1.25 higher angle.

circling is sweet on this plane and I had a comment from the pits immediately from Jim F in our club.